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, 1887-01-12
THE NEW ROUTE 70 INDIA, CHINA,
AND JAPAN.
(F0M the Times

The Montreal HcrUid of October s Ii says
that Mr.. EvpIVti ~Erazar, whose name has
become familiar through his cOnneXidn with
the fist tea shipments from CninA and
Japan over the Canadian Pacific Railway,
has recently gone all over the route, seen
all the leading officials, visited all the
principal trade centres in Canada, and full
ly informed himself in regard tn the wants
and wishes of the tea merchants, not in
Canada only, but in the Western States
and all points that are likely to have their
tea shipments conveyed in connection with
the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mr.. FraZar
states that The ten importers in the United
States and Canada are more than satisfied
with the quick despatch given to their or
derS ard the excellent c0n,litiUH III which
their C0uSignmpntS have snftdchta them.
Mr.. Frazar is a firm believer in the future
of the Canadian Pacific route in cOnnexiOn
with the growth and successful operation
of the tea trade. Thew. b. Flint, the pioneer
vessel Of the trade, he said, had arrived and
discharged her cargo OF II, 500 packages in
excellent ORDER. One-half of this cargo
was for the United States and One-half for
Canada; and the superiority of the route
to the east lay in the ease and speed with
which the various ~cOnSignmentS were tax
Cu ~ tuClI NNSAIIdtl OHSS IuC nLSU CdI 90 ny
the w. B. Flint being delivered into Mon
treal in AZ days and into New York in 40
days. All the teas for the Western States
leave The Canadian Pacific line at Emerson,
going down to Glyndon on the Northern
Pacific, a distance OF only 224 miles, and
occupying not over ten hours. From that
point, UiG the Chicago, st. Paul, and Min.
neapolis road, it is rapidly conveyed to
Chicago, st. Louis, and the other whole
sale points in the interior. The eastern
distribution is made at BrOckville, the cars
crossing the st. Lawrence at BrOckville
without breaking bulk and passing on over
the Utica and BlackRiVer road to Albany
AMI thence TO New York. That portion of
the cargo destined for IBsostOn and the New
England States continues on, the canadian
Pacific to MoptFFsl and crosses the boun-
Diary at BnrlI9gttppMi KermaHplt enThis route
gives every p0ssibIG1 convenience t. impor-
ters of teas iuto Canada and gthe United
States and practically pptsb all on the same
footing, as the c~Onsignments en- be drop
ped off en- PEASANT, obviating transhipments,
go. The great natural route from China
and Japan to Canada and the United States
is across the Pacific Ocean and not by the
circuitous and hot route UG the Suez Canal,
, 1887-01-12
ESNEOUEBO.

We have had very heavyrrains here, and
seem to be in for a good Old-fashioned rainy
season. The season has brought with it
land breezeS or none at all, and most white
people in the district find a daily dose OF
quinine as necessary as their daily break.
fast. The planters are pushing on with
sugar making under the difficulties inSepa-
rable from grinding in a wet season. The
cane juice is, SO far, wonderfully good.
The returns from the fields are all that
could he desired. All of the estates are
making larger weeks work than they ever
did before. Owing to the want of wind the
estates craft are almost useless in removing
produce, so there is a very large quantity
stored on the estates. Wages have adj
vanced a little since October, but on the
whole they are comparatively low still.
/ am told by intelligent old cOloniSts that
wages nave never been ST. low before, and
that the labOrerS nave never been SO we'll
aft, us they are now. Wages are possibly
20 per cent. lower than they were three
years ago, but plantains are one sirth Of
their former price. Fresh pork which used
10 br 20 cents a lii. in now sold at 6 cents.
The inferior cuts of beef can he bad at 3 and
40 cents a ID. Rice is at 20 cents instead Of
q to ~ cents. Brown sugar which used
40 cost the labOrerS 5 cents u lb. can now
be bought alas! for }.
, 1887-01-12

Calalu, green, Eur0LNs {AMGrGNtus] riri-
dis, naturalized in most tropical countries.
There are two FORMS of this, one Semi,wild
kind Of low habit and small leaves, aud u
large kind growing to four feet high in
good soil, this latter kind is the one crown
for the table, the other is not cultivated.
1t has small bright black seeds like those
of the cOckSc0mb which when s0wn will
terminate in IL few days; when the plants
have four or five leaves they should be
tranSplalted into beds regularly the. same
AS cabbage. In about two weeks the tops
can be cut off for use, the plants will then
Spout out with several shoots, which in
about two more weeks can be cut and used
also. 1t is a very fast growing plant and
needs to be constantly cut to keep it from
seeding. After being transplanted it re-.
quires very little attention beyond water
ing and wedding; when the plants begin to
look scrubby from SO much cutting, a sec.
Ond bed should be planted, and as soon as
this is fit for use, the first bed can be dis.
1AanSa1 with
, 1887-01-12

In "Sketches from my life" by the late
Admiral Hobart Pasha, one of the bravest
ct brave Englishmem, there is an account
of a visit he paid, during his naval career,
to DeInerara:
1t was apparently a little after this that
Hobart was sent with a prize to Demerara,
where he found that the soldier officers, in
attempting to withstand the dreadful mo-
. nOtOlly OF doing nothing, had taken to Div
ing rather too WE'LL with the natural con
sequence that many a fine fellow had been
carried off by yellow fever Warned by
bheir example, Hobart varied the amuse-
ment, and fell desperately in love with
the Governors daughter. Now, in Hobart's
own Words
THE Governor was a very great swell,
o General, K. G. B., SC. and his daugh-
ter was a mighty pretty girl, much run
after by the garrison; so it was thought
great impertinence on my part, as a hum
BILE sub lieutenant, to presume to make
love to the reigning, if not the only beauty
in the place. However, aud&city carried
me on, and ] soon became No, / in the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-22

Mr. Forbes of the Boston Journal has
been looking up the statistics of the nation
al and savings banks in this state. and in
letter to that paper he saws that more than
s2S. 600, 900 is at present invested in the
stock of and on deposit in these institutions.
of this amount the banks hold half in the
form of deposits, or more than Sl4. 900. 900.
Since the passage of the national banking
law g. national banks have been organized
in Vermont. of which number IA have gone
into liquidation. There are at present 30
national hanks in the state with total can
ital Of s. .6gl 900. circulation "a sos Ol5.
loans and discounts S11 1,3 hSO individual
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MINOR NOTES.

The Central Vermont railroad company
made quick work of replacing the long
White River trestle The trestle which
was put in after the disaster in February
was carried off 10y the high water on Sun
day night and Monday of last week Two
days elapsed before the water went down
so that work could be begun, but the job
was completed so that trains crossed and
traffic was resumed on Monday afternoon
of this week Railroad men say that the
job was one of the quickest of its kind on
record.
The commissioners appointed to locate the
Vermont monuments to he erected ON the
battlefield of gettysburg are on visit to the
battlefield this week
Gov Hill of New York has vetoed the
Crosby high license bill which passed both
houses of the legislature of that state, and
for no good reason, apparently, except that
the measure did not please the rumsellers
and the Democratic majority, and there
fore its approval would damage his own
popularity and chance for preferment.
A committee of the San Francisco cham
Der of commerce has drawn up a petition
requesting Secretary Whitney not to sign
| the death warrant of the old flagship Hart
| ford, but to keep her, as the English pre-
served Nelson's flagship, Victory, as a con
slant reminder of the achievements of our
navy. The Hartford now lies at the Mare
Island navy yard, and her sale has been or
dered by the navy department
Mr. Blaine has returned home from his
western trip. His health is improving.
Since the last railroad accidents the mum
Der of patents of car heaters has become SC
large that special department has been
opened in the patent Office for the exami
nation of the new devices.
memorial meeting in honor of ex Pres
ident Arthur was held Wednesday night il
the New York assembly chamber at Al
bany. Hon. Chauncey Depew was the prin
cipal speaker.
Lord Salisbury has submitted to Score
tary Bayard a new proposition in regard t.
the fisheries dispute. 1t is in brief, to re
turn to the old order of things before tn
expiration of the Washington treaty, whicl
permitted Americans to fish in Canadian
waters and admitted Canadian fish free o
duty.
The President has appointed Alexande
r. Lawton of Georgia minister to Austria
He was confederate brigadier and wa
educated at West Point.
The New York Herald thinks it would b
a good plan for the United States to us
t Alaska for penal colony
Mrs Howe, the Boston "woman's bank
swinder, whose exploits are mentioned
an article on our first page, is in Canada.
Rev. George S. Pratt, formerly pastor {
the st. Adams Baptist church, was confirm
= ed as an Episcopalian by Bishop Bissell la
Tuesday evening. Mr., Pratt enters tt
: Episcopal ministry.
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Woman suffrage in kansas.

The experiment which Kansas is making
of woman suffrage in municipal elections
is an interesting one, and the results of its
first trial as made in the elections held two
weeks ago have been studied with mixed
emotions of anxiety and curiosity by the
friends of the reform. The result on the
whole was altogether encouraging. Spirit
ed accounts of the fight are given by
women who took a leading part in it. One
of the most interesting of these is contain
ed in a letter written to the Woman's Jour
nal by Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar of Indiana,
who led the Leavenworth women in their
crusade against unlimited saloons and IL
censed prostitution. Her letter confirms
the statements that the fight in Leaven-
worth was extremely hot.
Since the adoption of the prohhitory amend
ment, the city has been the cesspoo of the state,
into which the lawless whiskey element has drift
ed and deiied the will of the people. She has the
penitentiary to pour its eX-cOnvicts each day up
on her streets She has the military prison on the
other side and coal mines with their attendant
floating population. Polish, Irish and German
and other Influences that make It difficult to bring
her TO a high standard of sObriety and obedience
To law. OF course, Leavenworth is under Dem
ocratic administration
In the election contest, Mrs Cougar CON
tinues, there were no neutrals everybody
men and women-worked with all their
might ON one side or the other, yet the best
order prevailed. The city claims 40, 600 in
habitants, and 1926 women registered to
43ls men. This registry included not only
the women who favored law and order, but
all the criminal women in the city and the
wives Of men who had money interest in
the continuance of the saloons and the re-
suit pretty thoroughly exploded, so far as
that town was concerned, the claim that
larger proportion of the women interested
on the wrong side of the issue of good mn
nicipal government will vote than those de
string tight municipal rein. Nicely, the
mayor who allowed 200 saloons and licensed
seven brothels, and a council in sympathy
with him. were elected two years ago by
1900 majority. This year Neelys majority
is 20, and the entire council is for the strict
enforcement of the laws. The criminal
women voted for Nicely, so did about $50
Poles aud foreigners who could not speak
English, some Germans who believe in free
beer and the women whose husbands were
pecuniarily interested in big saloon trade
and in the spOils Of the Nicely government /;
on the other side were the women of the
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HOME NEWS.
A-NNNANs
WEEK ENDiNO THURSDAY EVENING, ARR. 81, 1887.
Announcenenta.

Mrs l.. II. Hunter and sister are about TO open
dress making rooms at No. IL Western Avenue
Special attention will be given 10 fitting and max.
ing misses and children's garments.
Wanted at once, girl or woman to help take
care Of children. Mas d. LEONARD, & Green-st
Wyatt has excellent cabinet photographs of
Rev and Mrs. Whitney which he sells at pc each
few choice Wyandotte eggs for setting. En-
quirc Of II f. Taylor
From the recent great auction sale in New York
Of a manufacturers stock Of white Goods. Lace
Curtains, Madras and Scrims, Hawley offers scrim
at &c. Sc Toe, l2ic and ljc. heretofore sold at
loc, l2c, l5c 2oc and 25c AT loo a yard a lot of
high art culoring in Madras Styles worth nc
Excellent value in fine cream and fancy colored
Madras. Lot of White Goods at job prices.
WANrED-A first class girl to do general house.
work MRs l. n Ar.vs
The groceries and fixtures removed from the
lat store Of =. b. DeWolf will he sold at auction
tomorrow saturday evening at the room oppo-
site the post office, town hall building
$. n. HERRlcK.
Picture frames in variety at A. f. wilder's.
Also academy board. Shop open evenings tog
ARTISTIC PlcTuRE FRAMING at Clapp & Jones's.
WASTED AT ONCE A competent girl for doing
housework one who understands cooking
+. C. CRosBY.
Buy Picture Frames Of Gcdds.
Cheap lot Of coins for sale. Send sc stamp for
circulars. Address +. G SrEnMAN, Brattleboro. Vt
y furnished room to let C. w. WILCOX
PICTURE FRAMES arr cheap at Clapp & Jones's
Call AT Van Doom and Murris's and see the best
line of carpet swrcpers Ia town
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The April snow which fell steadily all
day on Monday was a surprise TO more peo-
pie than those Of Wndham county. 1t cx-
tended all over New England, eastern and
northern New York, and IA large part Of
Pennsylvania In Boston the snow drove
all day before a piercing east wind, chang
ing TO rain at night In the Berkshire
hills the storm was called Zone of the
worst Of the season. In New Yorkscitv
there was snow, rain, hail and sleet by
turns, with a high wind all day aud tenn
perature below freezing at night Travel
was inpeded 10y the slush in the streets In
Hartford, Conn, y or 10 inches of snow
fell The fall was heavy in the Hudson
river valley and in the section about Scran-
ton, Pa, reached 10 inches The storm
visited the west Sunday, and in Kansas
Nebraska and western Missouri was one of
rain succeeded in the Missouri river val
ley by snow that covered the ground TO the
depth of 10 inches In St. Louis, even,
there was "a brisk snow storm Herea-
bouts the snow was an old fashioned 'sug-
ar snow and the accumulation varied
from four inches on the river bottoms TO
six or eight on the hills.
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OLE LOCAL INTEREsr

The Springfield, Mass, papers recorded
on Tuesday the death Of Mrs Lucy Gassett
Ornel of that city, which took place on
sunday night at the home of her son in
Philadelphia. Shefwas member of the
famous Dwight fhnily, the members of
which for three generations past have held
prominent place in the social business
and professional life of the middle Con
necticut Valley Her husband was vii
liam Wetmore Orne, who was a brother of
the late Mrs Chas. Chaplin of this village,
and the older Brattleboro people remember
well the frequent visits made by Mrs. Orne
TO the Chaplin family in the days when
Brattleboro social life was at its brightest
and best-at least to the people of that
generation. OF the Chaplin family. rel
atlves of the Dwights and Ornes, the on
ly representatives now left here are Mrs
Charles Warder, Mr.. VIM. O. Chaplin and
the young SON of the late o. II. Chaplin.
Mrs. Dwight was the 18th and Youngest
child Of her parents, James Scott and Ma
ry Sanford Dwight, and was married u
Capt. Orne IN 1884 at the age of L. OF
her personal characteristics the Republican
says;
'She was an elegant and courtly person whom
II was always both Il pleasure and am honor Ia
meet. Her intellectual qualities were naturally
superior ana had becu cultivated by wide reading
anu bY association with interesting and educated
people She had an unusually fine pr,.s,.nc. ill.,
fortunate continuation OF "a tall figure, handsome
FEATURES aud graceful manners Her death rohs
Springfield Of one of its most attractive charac.
tsis' one IA whom We're united the knowledge and
flavor OF the olden times with keen sympathy
ana interest in the new"
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A Home E.timnIe.

From the Waterloo Canada Advertiser
Prof Wiggins's tongue is again wagging.
He predicts an earthquake, affecting both
Europe and America, which is to occur in
August or September next. The position
of certain planets will cause this disturb
ance. There is something well-nigh heroic
in the makeup Of this man Virgins. So
far as attentive study of his record can
avail, there is nothing to show that any
prophecy he ever made has been fulfilled
On the other hand, no great disturbance of
the elements has occurred for some years
past which has not been followed by an as
sertion from Virgins that he had predicted
the phenomenon. He possesses in all its
untamed grandeur that kind of colossal
Cheek which stands ''unhurt amidst the
war of elements, the wreck of matter and
the crush of worlds Nothing but time
and physical decay which is certain to over
come at length even such brass ribbed men
as Virgins can avail to quiet a tongue
which has worked much mischief with its
i'll nd vispd activitV
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Nlrs Eunice Humphrey Allen, soprano,
Mrs Maria Hester. cOntralto,
Mr.. j. c. Bartlett. tenor,
MIR Jacob Benziug. bass.
ASYLUM IMPROVEMENTS.

At the asylum. work has been begun this
week upon the foundations Of the new pig
gerry near the farm buildings The loca-
ton Of this situation upon an isolated
plateau is admirable for its purposes. ad-
hitting Of a roadway completely surround
ing it and easy Of access from the farm
buildings proper, while it is so far removed
from the asylum buildings and from the
highway. that it can never become in any
way nuisance, nor "A source of unsanitary
influence The plan Of the structure en-
braces every known improvement in re
spect TO the proper care Of swine, which
in connection with such an establishment
became "A necessity in the economic ad-
ministration The building Is 10 bee POO
feet long, containing forty separate pens
twenty on each side Of the long central
space which is TO be- ten feet wide At
one end Is also a slaughter room provided
with hosting apparatus and hot water ar
rangements also u swill room in which is
to be hot and cold water in connection with
a small steam generator, 50 that according
u the season all the feed can be 81 itably
diluted and prepared for the animals The
plan shows its construction to be of brick
up TO the height of the top of the pens,
with floor Of solid cement over the whole.
Above the height of the pens, the whole
space below the caves of the building is To
be filled with windows The roof is Of
slate with half "a dozen ventiiators upon
the ridge David Downcr has the contract
for the stone foundation work. c. W Cole
Of Boston for the brick work and Richard
son ~ Underwood of Westminster for the
carpenter work
While the erection Of thi, will constitute
the principal work in the line Of building
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-22
British Ball Dog. Making History

There was a scene in the English House
of Commons last Friday, during the debate
ON the Irish coercion bill, which for vio-
lence, uproar, and disgraceful and unman
ly personalities has rarely had its equal
in any legislative body. The reading of
the full report of the language used and the
turmoil which prevailed, should furnish
food for thought to those Americans who
delight in comparing the proceedings in
Parliament with those in our own Congress,
and always to the disadvantage of the lat
ter, Leaving out a scene like that when
Bully Brooks assaulted Charles Sumner in
the Senate Chamber, we doubt if any coca
sion can be recalled when, in the course of
regular debate, anything so turbulent and
exciting has happened in our congressional
proceedings. The trouble originated when
Maj. Saunderson, a conservative member
and a warm advocate of the coercion bill
threw out the impersonal charge that the
Irish National League is
"A criminal conspiracy, established for the pur-
pose Of carrying out criminal object, while II is
mainly supported by traitors, murderers, dyna-
mters and criminals ON the other side of the At
lantc. This is a serious charge, know, especial
.
members sitting in this house
There was a hush for moment and then,
when Mr., Parnells supporters fairly took
in what this implication meant, the storm
burst forth, Mr.. Healey, liberal mem
Der, sprang to his feet and demanded of
the speaker to know whether it was com
petent for 4" the honorable gentleman to
make such charge The speaker weakly
evaded the point by answering that the
charge could be met in debate and it was
not his duty to interfere. Mr. Healey then
said
IF the honorable and gallant gentleman refers
70 me have no hesitation in telling his across the
floor Of this House -Cpause that he is a liar :"
At this the tumult was increased four
fold Mr.. Healey was named and his
suspension demanded, and there were loud
cries for Maj Saunderson to withdraw his
unmanly charge, but he hid behind the
cowardly subterfuge of declaration that
he hadn't made any direct statement. The
question of Mr.. Healeys suspension was
put to vote and carried and he left the
House amid a storm of cheers from the
Parnellite members.
After he was gone Mr. Sexton, another
liberal member, took up the cudgels and
called Maj. Saunderson wilful and COW
ardly liar several times over. Saunder
son was finally compelled 10 make a quasi
withdrawal of his offensive charge so far
as Mr., Sexton was concerned This gave
Mr.. Sexton chance TO withdraw his owl
hot language which lac had used under VIC
lent provocation and the session ended but
all the while the scene, as described in the
cable dispatches, was one by the side OF
which bedlain was cloister for quiet med
itation
On the opening of Mondays session q
motion was made for Mr.. Healey's rein
statement, but Maj. Saunderson persisted
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-22

There have been sensational develop
alleged case of bribery in the Massachusetts,
Legislature growing out of the attempt to
divide the town of Beverly and set off Bev-
erly Farms as a town by itself. The resi-
dents of Beverly Farms, it appears, are
largely city people" who want to cut
loose from the rural population in old Bev-
erly and run their affairs to suit themselves
movement for division has been made
before, and this year when it was renewed
the Beverly Farms people took care to
raise sufficient sum of money to make
sure of having the lobby on their side The
scheme worked well and the bill for the di-
vision went through both houses and had
been ordered to be engrossed when one of
the senators threw in frebrand by pub
Hcly declaring that, to his personal knowl-
edge money had been corruptly used to OBJ
tain votes for the division bill The inves-
tigation on the part of the Senate began
| Monday. when the evidence showed that
Senator Sattery, who made the charges,
had been offered 800 for his vote and that it
was proposed to pay representative named
Lally $3.50 for his work and vote Slattery
and Lally, it appeared, had laid trap to
catch the lobbyists On Tuesday the coun-
sci for the Beverly Farms divsionists took
the stand and made what was claimed to
he a clean breast of the whole matter. He
said that the divisionists raised the snug
sum of $4,000, not to buy votes, but tc
have their bill taken care Of by the lob
byists. 1t was necessary to do this, ht
said because the lobbyists had come t.
have such control over the affairs of tn,
legislature that they must be given liberia
retainers in order to have any measure car
ried through, The money had been paiC
out as it was called for by these leeches
and no account had been kept of it.